It's very likely that they're including the opportunity costs of figuring out the difficulties with linux, because as any user knows there are many...and also hiring professionals to maintain it. I still disagree with the whole process, but it's possible that they get some banker's son to set up the entire windows network, but for linux they need to hire some guy who actualy knows his stuff, and that costs money. Though, the enterprise licenses for windows versus linux should clearly verhaul the costs, but as you said, they probably get massive discounts on that. Very biased report, if you ask me, but it is possible.
Did anyone read the part about the ark weighing 25 gigatons? with an escape velocity of 11.2 km/s do you have any idea wehat kind of momentum that would need? Forget about building the ark, stabilizing the environment indoors, all of that crap, how on earth would you get it OFF earth? 280000000000 KG*M/S!!!!!! the force required to overcome gravity is approximately 245250000000 Newtons, or in terms of NASA's STS space shuttle (mass 2,029,203 KG) 12332 times the amount of force it took to launch NASA's Space Shuttle (STS). Unless someone has 13 thousand space shuttle engines lying around to strap onto this thing, i don't see this happening any time soon.
without delving into the details of firefly, it was set to look at times like an old western, and at others to look like the futuristic societies we imagine in sci-fi novels. either way, it's besides the point..but you should watch firefly.
Ever seen firefly? Perhaps it's an accurate description of the future, all cultures mixed and China + USA are the two world superpowers. Well, either way that may be far off in the future, relatively speaking.
Do we not have others superpowers to keep in us in check right now? Undoubtedly USA is #1 in terms of power, but if even one superpower turned on us, would we stand a chance of recovery fast enough to remain the #1 superpower?
If Japan cut off america for electronics, China would gain so much more of the demand, and the supply would significantly decrease, even without hackers is that possibility not enough to keep America in check? I should think that every superpower has a single move that could throw out a leg of every other superpower in the world, because that's the only way they got there.
On the other side of the argument, China is well known for it's debauchery in a political sense, (uh, Tibet?). Is it so wholly unbelievable that this is in fact government influenced? Chances are with all the free information from the government given to us...spoonfed to us, we'll never find out
As for democracy, what country exhibits better democracy than America? Realistically democracy is impossible, but America probably comes the closest, aside from perhaps Sweden and a handful of other--smaller & much more manageable--countries. And as for the last statement, the US has been screwing the world for years? I'm not sure I even need to rectify that, but when all is said and done, have we done ill, or well? Everyone makes mistakes, the US makes mistakes on a grandeur scale, but what about the economy, the stock market, what about all the good that's come out of America?
It's easy to criticize, but much more difficult to really appreciate some of the small mistakes in the grand scheme of things.
Does anyone know if the movies are all going in production? I heard rumor that the next movie is going to be the last one, but I found no verifiable sources online...well, none that seemed legitimate anyways
Jacking up prices by friends on ebay to increase profits is almost regular practice with anyone that sells more than three items a year. Fraud? not really though. In the most technical of terms, it is fraud if someone knowingly is bidding for any purpose other than to buy the item, but the only fraud that gets looked into is the kind that hurts the public consumer. This kind of fraud does NOT! Every buyer has a "willingness-to-pay" for any item. Suppose I want to buy a laser pointer for presentations, and I find that I'm willing to pay $35 for it. I can search online and find one for $15, so my economic profit is $20, but if I couldn't find one for any less than exactly $35, then there's no problem because that's what it's worth to me anyways. In ebay you will never be charged more than you choose to, so your economic profit should theoretically never drop below zero, as long as you make the correct decisions. I don't see how this is such an issue if nobody is particularly getting hurt...Economically speaking, this is flourishing because you are minimizing deadweight loss by matching willingness to pay with maximizing profit.
The real answer to why this may be is the following. HD-DVDs are cheaper to produce, and aside from a select few companies and organizations, most pornographers work out of very little liquidated flow, can't afford to muster up for blu ray when they're still unstable. But this is besides the point: the fact remains, the first combination reading player has been introduced by LG. It's only a matter of time before single-format players become obseleted, and deleted from society's memory. There's no real Betamax Vs. VHS war going on here, though it looks like it from afar. Warner brothers is already working on a disc that's going to be able to have either data type written to it, and this, in combination with combo players will make HD vs. Blu ray like VCDs vs DVDs. they'll both have different purposes, slight differences, but in todays date, most players will play both of them
IS THAT A JOKE???!!! Ocarina of Time is most definitely better! The gameplay lasts FAR longer, the insights are greater, the depth of the puzzles are much more involving and difficult. Ocarina of time is my personal favorite zelda, and Majora's mask doesn't even come close! I'm sorry I had to flame this one, but i can't believe you guys!!!
Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian. Could be any of those really. I hadn't thought about it in that perspective, that we geeks are necessary for those non-geeks to solve their problems in computing for them. And if we're not there....Yeah, good call. I'm sure Bill Gates won't let his empire die, he will have to fix it. What's the point in improving on this gen of technology when you can instead spend the time to improve the incoming next gen technology. Maybe with Vista it'll be fixed...dare i say even, removed? Oh, i can only dream.
I have a strong feeling that unless Vista has some revolutionary changes to WGA (which is entirely possible) that this will be their downfall with the more computer friendly crowd (i.e. everyone that reads slashdot). Unfortunately, there's still 50 million moms, young kids, and just generally computer-unsavvy consumers that will buy a computer from a retail store (ew) and just run it out of the box without putting in any kind of os CD (that means they'll be using xp home, double ew!). Microsoft will always have a crowd that will cater to them, Microsoft doesn't need to cater to the crowd.
P.S. Ballmer=total nut job
Wait for the company's shutdown, and you'll be able to sell it on eBay for a fortunate to some high up ex-employee of SGI that is nostalgiac of his old life and high paying salary
Yeah, i clarified my exaggerations as exactly that, exaggerations.:-P get with the program! haha, i realized my error in making the umbrella statements and the likes.
Thanks!
-Avi
Ah, very good! Thanks for clearing up the misconception!
I suppose technically, it's for humans, because as the imperial human race, we couldn't care less about chickens, we'll move on to like other meats. It just gets put into the chickens, so that we don't have to deal with medical bills, it turns out vets are cheaper to employ than medical doctors:-P
Gotta love the selfishness, and thanks again for the clarification
A list of things i've learned since posting my comment:
Bird flu is serious for birds
Bird flu is not that serious for some birds
Bird flu is serious for humans
Bird flu doesn't actually kill humans, it's humans that kill themselves with their own immune system
Bird flu doesn't affect humans that seriously
But the most amazing revelation of all
Nobody really knows that much about the avian flu, least of all people me.
All i can tell you for sure is that I don't have it, I don't know anyone that has it, I don't know anyone that knows anyone that has it (or has had it at all for that matter). So like a ostritch, since i don't see it, it obviously can't see me!:-P
Similarly, the human Flu can kill humans. It's possible, even likely, but in juxtaposition with the Avian flu's effect on humans, it looks almost insignificant. Though, you're right..I did a little more looking after i posted and i learned that my inferred comparison of the avian flue being relatively harmless was wrong, perhaps i shouldn't have compared it to the common cold, rather Pneumonia might be a better choice. Either way, thank you for the clarification
It's for humans. The Avian flu is not a serious things for birds. Think of it this way, a cold is shitty, granted, but it won't destroy your life. In very rare cases will a cold last longer than a week and a half, and even rarer for it to have a permanent effect. But if...a dog, somehow someway contracted a common cold, and was completely unprepared to accept the virus and combat it, the dog would die without much of a fight. Monkeys live with AIDS like it's nothing, but it destroys us. The Avian flu is a bird disease, and when cross-genus diseases spread, there's (as far as we know) no way to stop almost certain death. Yay for vaccines!
It seems that this has turned into a flame post, and that's exactly what i was trying to stay away from.
So, this argument is over, you win. All i was trying to say was not to assume it's done until it really is done.
You're still ignoring the fact that this is all still in development. If the japanese company Nintendo were willing to change their name to something they couldn't even pronounce a week before the biggest gaming convention in the world, who's to say they won't modify a lens on their controller?
Not to flame, or anything...but You are not an authority on what is ruled out or not, and i know that technically, this isn't a mouse-ball, http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/~jeroen/projects/ mouseeye/ This is an example of odd things done out of unlikely devices. While this was a modification, there's no telling that there won't be something similar built in, and if it were built in, it would probably be better.
Nintendo is best known for their eccentric ideas, so don't say it's not going to happen until they say so. What if there's a plug-in feature, and you can set it atop the Television to aim at the user, and use it as an eye-toy? Just making a statement that Nintendo above all else is one of the most innovative gaming companies, with the largest quantity of free thinkers on their team. I suppose you can say, they're like Apple, but done right. (Though, if you ask me, that's not hard to do.)
Now that's something that i think would spark a lot of people's attention. All you have to do is put bruce willis in the background holding a flamethrower...This is like a thinktank for eye-catching banners right here
Funny that you say that, but this could be quite interesting for psychological testing. An array of images, for example could be given, ones with great shock value, loving images, landscapes, techno-graphix, an assortment of a few images of as many categories as possible, totalling let's say 6000. Showing one for a second each, 100 minutes (or a little over an hour and a half) you can see where interest peaks, and see someone's truly, unprocessed and unmasked interests.
I betcha most men (and probably women too) will show peaks at three things
The gender of chosen interest in less clothing than would be accepted in public
Some kind of crazy technological advancement
An explosion of sorts
and yes, in that order
Why would apple pull that page? It's not defacing Apple in any way shape or form, in fact, it's promoting two of their products. One of which is discontinued and no longer offered any support for, and that is the one being "modified" The new one, ipod, isn't modified at all. So why again would Apple pull that page down? this question brings a phrase to mind;
"Any publicity is good publicity." And this isn't even persay bad publicity. I don't see any reason for Apple to not want this website up, let alone all the other flickr websites of people showing off their own versions.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the story you were searching for can be found here:
m onitors-increase-productivity-168488.php
? id=433
http://lifehacker.com/software/dual-monitor/dual-
this is a good one too, but it's written by microsoft...so i have to believe it's riddled with lies
http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx
It's very likely that they're including the opportunity costs of figuring out the difficulties with linux, because as any user knows there are many...and also hiring professionals to maintain it. I still disagree with the whole process, but it's possible that they get some banker's son to set up the entire windows network, but for linux they need to hire some guy who actualy knows his stuff, and that costs money. Though, the enterprise licenses for windows versus linux should clearly verhaul the costs, but as you said, they probably get massive discounts on that. Very biased report, if you ask me, but it is possible.
Did anyone read the part about the ark weighing 25 gigatons? with an escape velocity of 11.2 km/s do you have any idea wehat kind of momentum that would need? Forget about building the ark, stabilizing the environment indoors, all of that crap, how on earth would you get it OFF earth? 280000000000 KG*M/S!!!!!! the force required to overcome gravity is approximately 245250000000 Newtons, or in terms of NASA's STS space shuttle (mass 2,029,203 KG) 12332 times the amount of force it took to launch NASA's Space Shuttle (STS). Unless someone has 13 thousand space shuttle engines lying around to strap onto this thing, i don't see this happening any time soon.
without delving into the details of firefly, it was set to look at times like an old western, and at others to look like the futuristic societies we imagine in sci-fi novels. either way, it's besides the point..but you should watch firefly.
Ever seen firefly? Perhaps it's an accurate description of the future, all cultures mixed and China + USA are the two world superpowers. Well, either way that may be far off in the future, relatively speaking. Do we not have others superpowers to keep in us in check right now? Undoubtedly USA is #1 in terms of power, but if even one superpower turned on us, would we stand a chance of recovery fast enough to remain the #1 superpower?
If Japan cut off america for electronics, China would gain so much more of the demand, and the supply would significantly decrease, even without hackers is that possibility not enough to keep America in check? I should think that every superpower has a single move that could throw out a leg of every other superpower in the world, because that's the only way they got there.
On the other side of the argument, China is well known for it's debauchery in a political sense, (uh, Tibet?). Is it so wholly unbelievable that this is in fact government influenced? Chances are with all the free information from the government given to us...spoonfed to us, we'll never find out
As for democracy, what country exhibits better democracy than America? Realistically democracy is impossible, but America probably comes the closest, aside from perhaps Sweden and a handful of other--smaller & much more manageable--countries. And as for the last statement, the US has been screwing the world for years? I'm not sure I even need to rectify that, but when all is said and done, have we done ill, or well? Everyone makes mistakes, the US makes mistakes on a grandeur scale, but what about the economy, the stock market, what about all the good that's come out of America?
It's easy to criticize, but much more difficult to really appreciate some of the small mistakes in the grand scheme of things.
Does anyone know if the movies are all going in production? I heard rumor that the next movie is going to be the last one, but I found no verifiable sources online...well, none that seemed legitimate anyways
So much for my Rutgers minor in economics :-P
Jacking up prices by friends on ebay to increase profits is almost regular practice with anyone that sells more than three items a year. Fraud? not really though. In the most technical of terms, it is fraud if someone knowingly is bidding for any purpose other than to buy the item, but the only fraud that gets looked into is the kind that hurts the public consumer. This kind of fraud does NOT! Every buyer has a "willingness-to-pay" for any item. Suppose I want to buy a laser pointer for presentations, and I find that I'm willing to pay $35 for it. I can search online and find one for $15, so my economic profit is $20, but if I couldn't find one for any less than exactly $35, then there's no problem because that's what it's worth to me anyways. In ebay you will never be charged more than you choose to, so your economic profit should theoretically never drop below zero, as long as you make the correct decisions. I don't see how this is such an issue if nobody is particularly getting hurt...Economically speaking, this is flourishing because you are minimizing deadweight loss by matching willingness to pay with maximizing profit.
The real answer to why this may be is the following. HD-DVDs are cheaper to produce, and aside from a select few companies and organizations, most pornographers work out of very little liquidated flow, can't afford to muster up for blu ray when they're still unstable. But this is besides the point: the fact remains, the first combination reading player has been introduced by LG. It's only a matter of time before single-format players become obseleted, and deleted from society's memory. There's no real Betamax Vs. VHS war going on here, though it looks like it from afar. Warner brothers is already working on a disc that's going to be able to have either data type written to it, and this, in combination with combo players will make HD vs. Blu ray like VCDs vs DVDs. they'll both have different purposes, slight differences, but in todays date, most players will play both of them
IS THAT A JOKE???!!!
Ocarina of Time is most definitely better! The gameplay lasts FAR longer, the insights are greater, the depth of the puzzles are much more involving and difficult. Ocarina of time is my personal favorite zelda, and Majora's mask doesn't even come close!
I'm sorry I had to flame this one, but i can't believe you guys!!!
Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian. Could be any of those really. I hadn't thought about it in that perspective, that we geeks are necessary for those non-geeks to solve their problems in computing for them. And if we're not there....Yeah, good call. I'm sure Bill Gates won't let his empire die, he will have to fix it. What's the point in improving on this gen of technology when you can instead spend the time to improve the incoming next gen technology. Maybe with Vista it'll be fixed...dare i say even, removed? Oh, i can only dream.
I have a strong feeling that unless Vista has some revolutionary changes to WGA (which is entirely possible) that this will be their downfall with the more computer friendly crowd (i.e. everyone that reads slashdot). Unfortunately, there's still 50 million moms, young kids, and just generally computer-unsavvy consumers that will buy a computer from a retail store (ew) and just run it out of the box without putting in any kind of os CD (that means they'll be using xp home, double ew!). Microsoft will always have a crowd that will cater to them, Microsoft doesn't need to cater to the crowd. P.S. Ballmer=total nut job
Wait for the company's shutdown, and you'll be able to sell it on eBay for a fortunate to some high up ex-employee of SGI that is nostalgiac of his old life and high paying salary
Yeah, i clarified my exaggerations as exactly that, exaggerations. :-P get with the program! haha, i realized my error in making the umbrella statements and the likes.
Thanks!
-Avi
Ah, very good! Thanks for clearing up the misconception! I suppose technically, it's for humans, because as the imperial human race, we couldn't care less about chickens, we'll move on to like other meats. It just gets put into the chickens, so that we don't have to deal with medical bills, it turns out vets are cheaper to employ than medical doctors :-P
Gotta love the selfishness, and thanks again for the clarification
But the most amazing revelation of all
All i can tell you for sure is that I don't have it, I don't know anyone that has it, I don't know anyone that knows anyone that has it (or has had it at all for that matter). So like a ostritch, since i don't see it, it obviously can't see me!
Similarly, the human Flu can kill humans. It's possible, even likely, but in juxtaposition with the Avian flu's effect on humans, it looks almost insignificant. Though, you're right..I did a little more looking after i posted and i learned that my inferred comparison of the avian flue being relatively harmless was wrong, perhaps i shouldn't have compared it to the common cold, rather Pneumonia might be a better choice. Either way, thank you for the clarification
It's for humans. The Avian flu is not a serious things for birds. Think of it this way, a cold is shitty, granted, but it won't destroy your life. In very rare cases will a cold last longer than a week and a half, and even rarer for it to have a permanent effect. But if...a dog, somehow someway contracted a common cold, and was completely unprepared to accept the virus and combat it, the dog would die without much of a fight. Monkeys live with AIDS like it's nothing, but it destroys us. The Avian flu is a bird disease, and when cross-genus diseases spread, there's (as far as we know) no way to stop almost certain death. Yay for vaccines!
It seems that this has turned into a flame post, and that's exactly what i was trying to stay away from. So, this argument is over, you win. All i was trying to say was not to assume it's done until it really is done.
You're still ignoring the fact that this is all still in development. If the japanese company Nintendo were willing to change their name to something they couldn't even pronounce a week before the biggest gaming convention in the world, who's to say they won't modify a lens on their controller?
Not to flame, or anything...but/ mouseeye/ This is an example of odd things done out of unlikely devices. While this was a modification, there's no telling that there won't be something similar built in, and if it were built in, it would probably be better.
You are not an authority on what is ruled out or not, and i know that technically, this isn't a mouse-ball, http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/~jeroen/projects
Nintendo is best known for their eccentric ideas, so don't say it's not going to happen until they say so. What if there's a plug-in feature, and you can set it atop the Television to aim at the user, and use it as an eye-toy? Just making a statement that Nintendo above all else is one of the most innovative gaming companies, with the largest quantity of free thinkers on their team. I suppose you can say, they're like Apple, but done right. (Though, if you ask me, that's not hard to do.)
Now that's something that i think would spark a lot of people's attention. All you have to do is put bruce willis in the background holding a flamethrower...This is like a thinktank for eye-catching banners right here
I just checked....it seems to be working for me..You sure it's not a user-side thing?
Funny that you say that, but this could be quite interesting for psychological testing. An array of images, for example could be given, ones with great shock value, loving images, landscapes, techno-graphix, an assortment of a few images of as many categories as possible, totalling let's say 6000. Showing one for a second each, 100 minutes (or a little over an hour and a half) you can see where interest peaks, and see someone's truly, unprocessed and unmasked interests. I betcha most men (and probably women too) will show peaks at three things The gender of chosen interest in less clothing than would be accepted in public Some kind of crazy technological advancement An explosion of sorts and yes, in that order
Why would apple pull that page? It's not defacing Apple in any way shape or form, in fact, it's promoting two of their products. One of which is discontinued and no longer offered any support for, and that is the one being "modified" The new one, ipod, isn't modified at all. So why again would Apple pull that page down? this question brings a phrase to mind; "Any publicity is good publicity." And this isn't even persay bad publicity. I don't see any reason for Apple to not want this website up, let alone all the other flickr websites of people showing off their own versions.